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Really honored and privileged to have worked on creating this year's 2018 dated program graphics for Sesame Place theme park! So much fun!
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Bucktoothstudios
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Bucktoothstudios
@bucktoothstudio
Senior Character Artist-Orlando, FL Specializing in Licensed Character Illustration, Caricatures, Style Guide Creation, Merchandise Art, Christian Publishing
Katılım Kasım 2011
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@AngAesthetics He seemed to go to great pains to say that nothing he was saying was original. I heard him emphasize that in every seminar and interview I ever listened to (100+ hours so far). He said it doesn't always make its way out of scholarly fields into seminaries, so it seems new.
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Lol okay the Heiser stuff this week just makes me crack up hahahah XD
The problem wasn't the book, lol. Heiser's stuff was fine for the most part. The problem is that he marketed it off as saying something totally brand-spanking revolutionary when it's like....just basically repackaged standard Christian angelology. But the "Heiser = The Shack" stuff is willllld lol.
Bethel McGrew@BMcGrewvy
Putting Heiser on this list is spicy stuff.
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@DavidLimbaugh This is a confusing "controversy". Takes less than 5 min. of listening to any Unseen Realm seminar for MH to explain his point on the terminology. People are taking him woodenly out of literal context. Disagreeing is fine, but this is contesting a view he literally does not hold.
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I talked to Michael Heiser directly about this subject, and he expressly and specifically repudiated polytheism.
Larry Sanger@lsanger
Michael Heiser made it cool for Christians to talk as if the Bible teaches many gods exist. I don't claim to know exactly what Heiser himself believed. But many of his followers cheerfully affirm polytheism and don't seem to realize it. Blog post dropped 👇
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@GShaneMorris Amen. Gracious and self-deprecating. Nerdy in the best way possible. He had a palpable, but unique love for the Bible, ancient culture, AND modern popular culture that was positively contagious.
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He was also a really nice guy and a great podcast guest.
Andrew Snyder@Andrewnsnyder
I see a lot of people hating on this right now. I think Heiser does some very worthwhile things. He is worth a read as long as you don’t make his work your entire personality. As with most things, consider what he says while maintaining discernment.
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@DrawNear_ Absolutely. And it's not like he really argued in favor of a DIFFERENT system. He just explained that they're all going to give you heartburn somewhere and he's absolutely right. He deserves MASSIVE credit for reintroducing WONDER back into my Bible reading. I love him for that.
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@bucktoothstudio Yeah. If your theology rests on a very rigid and detailed systematic rooted in specific philosophical presups, reading Heiser is going to be hard on you.
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My most significant Unseen Realm insight came not from what's in scripture, but from what's not in scripture. :)
Heiser wrote, "Biblical theology should be derived from exegesis of the biblical text within the framework of the original context of those texts... any articulation needs to be defensible with respect to what the biblical text can sustain. If the text can’t sustain it, it shouldn’t be said. Once we know what the text can sustain, the truth assertions it asks us to believe carry authority."
The Unseem realm showed me how to focus on what the text can sustain, not on tradition or extra-biblical assumptions. When I modelled this, I found that some of my prooftexts didn't sustain what I thought they did. That led to a more careful reading of the word, greater humility, and an increase in empathy toward those I disagree with, especially on secondary issues.
Samuel Jurgensen@jurg1sam
@DrawNear_ What would you say is the most significant insight into the things of God this book offers, and why? Can you support it with scripture
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@cedrichohnstadt My hope is that Christian publishing and filmmaking remains committed to human made art for theological reasons, but I don't expect secular media to follow. We have a case to make that human made art is better even if it's "worse" b/c it glorifies God.
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@cedrichohnstadt I assume most commercial art henceforth will be AI simply because most people don't care how something is made. The people who value human made art will be the same as those who value hand made furniture or jewelry. It's sad, but reality in a price driven world.
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Illustrators are going to have to figure out how to strategically position themselves in the AI era.
One strategy is to brand yourself as "Anti-AI," guaranteeing art that is 100% human. If you can create work that is creative, distinct, and high quality, this will be a strong selling point in some markets. But it will also cost you jobs where deadlines are tight (and AI is definitely making faster turnaround the norm.)
On the other end of the spectrum are illustrators who are fully embracing AI, essentially becoming AI art directors. They are learning how to write prompts into Midjourney or Canva, and then using experience and a trained eye to quickly craft AI images that that are less "slop-like". There is also a market for this.
The middle strategy is a hybrid position, trying to have the best of both worlds. "I use AI for faster prelim but the final art is man-made," for example.
Wherever you position yourself, it will attract some clients and repel others.
I'm working on writing a blog post about AI and illustration. To all my followers, I'm curious...what strategy do you prefer and why? Leave a comment and let me know.
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@cedrichohnstadt For generalists, I think it's the most ethically defensible, but least commercially viable position as the art isn't the product, it just supports the product. In those cases, HOW it's made is unimportant to the consumer. They just want it faster, shinier, cheaper, convenient.
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@cedrichohnstadt I think the fully anti AI position makes most sense where the art itself is the product (Loish, Laufman, art made BY a specific artist) or for Christian artists for whom human made art is a philosophical commitment to honor God (& object to AI's plagiarism concerns).
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@NathanFowkesArt Speechless. What a gorgeous film and what gorgeous work, sir!
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Another blast from the past, I painted this for DreamWorks The Prince of Egypt way back when acrylics was the medium of choice.
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@IMAO_ For me, it's the plagiarism. No matter how good it gets, the fact that the generative models were trained by effectively stealing everyone's work without permission makes them unethical out of the gate. I always knew the quality would improve, but the ethics haven't.
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I think the problem with a lot of the anti-AI people is they have some valid criticisms buried under piles of stupid criticisms. They're too emotional about it or don't understand it enough to focus on the real problems and instead put all their energy into things like "six fingers" which are temporary problems with it.
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@LuizaJarovsky That seems like a VERY popular opinion to me! (It has the added benefit of being obviously true as well!)
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Unpopular opinion: AI-generated books symbolize the beginning of humanity's cultural decay.
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@annielcrawford This was very cleverly written. Had me going through 12 steps of grief until I got about halfway through. :) Classical schools are one of our last hopes for salvaging a generation who even knows what humanity is or what it means.
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For preventing the children in America from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the public.
Association of Classical Christian Schools (ACCS)@A_C_C_S
"AI has been around for long enough that classical schools need to have a realistic conversation about it. ... While there may be some curmudgeons out there still intent on demonizing AI, it’s high time classical schools move on to the adoption phase." Link below:
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@A_C_C_S Well played, Mr. Hoffman. ;) You had me going for a second (and no, I didn't ask AI to summarize it first). Haha
Proper satire. Excellent.
Man, I'm so thankful for our classical schools. Keep up the good work! Future batterie...I mean...generations are all depending on you!
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"AI has been around for long enough that classical schools need to have a realistic conversation about it. ... While there may be some curmudgeons out there still intent on demonizing AI, it’s high time classical schools move on to the adoption phase."
Link below:
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@politicalmath They've already done this to my field of commercial art. Just Hoovered up every single piece of artwork on the planet and offered to clone & remix it it for free, destroying lifelong careers & all incentive to pursue greatness & originality b/c it's instantly stolen en masse.
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This is tremendously bad. It's bad in a way that I'm not sure our current law can properly reflect.
My visceral reaction is that any VC or company whose *plan* is to steal software from their competitors should not just be sued, but the participants should go to jail.
Todd Saunders@toddsaunders
We all knew this was coming… but today I heard about it actually happening. A seed stage company backed by a well known VC openly admitted (in a board deck) that their strategy is to get access to a large incumbent’s software from a customer, clone the entire thing using Claude Code, and offer it at 90% less. Not “build something better.” Just copy it and offer it for less. The VC endorsed this as the GTM strategy. And even wrote back in writing that it was a good idea. Using a customer’s licensed access to reverse engineer a product and clone it is ethically bankrupt. I don’t know how else to put it. It likely violates terms of service. It may violate trade secret law as well (but I’m certainly not a lawyer). And a reputable VC putting this in writing in a board deck is genuinely insane. But it’s going to happen anyway. Everywhere… all the time. I don’t know where this ends, but we all knew this was coming and now it’s here.
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@NeilShenvi I think the thing that's muddying the waters is that ALL of AI is getting bundled together. There's several types, some legitimate, some not. As an artist, the generative models are some of the most morally fraught b/c they are like a superpowered version of Napster.
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Here's how to understand some of the moral revulsion towards AI:
Imagine you meet a girl and fall in love. You spend hours talking, dreaming, exchanging love letters. You get engaged. You imagine your life together.
Then you find out she's a robot.
How do you feel? 1/
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Whatever AI’s legitimate uses turn out to be, this is an extremely important point for educators. (Because Aristotle is right.)
Annie Crawford@annielcrawford
If Aristotle is right and happiness is the state of the soul in an activity of excellence, then off loading all our creative and intellectual work to AI will make us supremely miserable.
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@wewamiller Plus, you can't discount the very real "attraction" of this type of attraction - a chance to sit down in the air conditioning for about 15 minutes. Truly! In Orlando especially, this makes them a genuinely exciting proposition, far more so than the TTA People Mover for sure!
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One of the few times I disagree with The Shark.
I think you can make an argument they shouldn’t be the E-Ticket of a land, but I think it’s a good idea to still have smaller attractions like these motion theaters.
These can be the first attractions that children ride and it helps with overall capacity in a park. Also, it’s great for families or ADA guests to have something to do together that isn’t a major coaster.
Lastly, the footprint is normally so small is a fantastic way to increase the number of attractions in a park without wasting a huge footprint of space.
I vote we keep a small number as fillers in the park and help boost the number of rides per day a guest can experience.
Theme Park Shark 🎢🦈 Dustin Sparage@ThemeParkShark
My controversial opinion of the day: stationary simulators have no business inside theme parks anymore. What do you think
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@KonstantinKisin @gmiller Maybe have him as a guest on Triggernometry? I would LOVE to hear this conversation!
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